Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson
Joshua Reynolds
Short Name: Samuel Johnson
Full Name: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Birth Year: 1709
Death Year: 1784

Wikipedia Biography

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".

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